# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chesley-bonestell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:36:53.369Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chesley-bonestell"
name: "Chesley Bonestell"
slug: "chesley-bonestell"
description: "Chesley Knight Bonestell Jr. was an American painter, designer, and illustrator, best known for his realistic-looking paintings of space exploration, including future spacecraft and scenes set on moons and planets in the Solar System. His work helped inspire the American space program and appeared in popular magazines and books from the 1940s into the 1970s. He is considered one of the founders of \"space art\" for scientific illustration and his style has been influential in science fiction art, illustration, and cinema."
tagline: "American science fiction and space illustrator (1888-1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Von_Braun_1952_Space_Station_Concept_9132079_original.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1888-01-01"
deathDate: "1986-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.459472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094307/"
    handle:    "nm0094307"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "شسلي بونستل"
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    title: "تشيسلى بونستيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chesley Bonestell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesley_Bonestell"
    title: "Chesley Bonestell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesley_Bonestell"
    title: "Chesley Bonestell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chesley Bonestell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chesley Bonestell"
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    title: "צ'זלי בונסטל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chesley Bonestell"
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    title: "Chesley Bonestell"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesley_Bonestell"
    title: "Chesley Bonestell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chesley Bonestell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Чеслі Боунстел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump